Beresford, South Dakota.
Typical home $324,033 (+3.1% in a year). Sioux Falls, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$963 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,851 +3%
- $314,182$324,033 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,281 +37%
- $236,752$324,033 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Beresford$1,701
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Beresford, SD rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beresford, Lincoln County, South Dakota
Beresford is a city of 2,180 people in Lincoln County. Half its households earn more than $78,793 a year and half less, against $99,166 across Lincoln County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Beresford is a small city in Lincoln County, South Dakota, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes here run below the county's, though few residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is held by a modest share of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many people. The largest workplaces in Beresford include the Beresford School District, ProForm Fabrication, which makes food dehydrating equipment, and South Dakota Pork. Unemployment in Lincoln County is low and has held steady over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Newton Hills State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Spirit Mound Historic Prairie is another protected area at about the same distance. The James River is also a longer drive away for anyone who likes to be near water. Those interested in music and history can make the longer drive to the National Music Museum.
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- 944households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 30,502 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 30 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Centerville Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Beresford
- Beresford School District 61-2School district100FTE
- ProForm FabricationFood dehydrating equipment manufacturing33
- South Dakota PorkHog and pig farming28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 61 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Beresford’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Lincoln County and the Sioux Falls, SD metro.
Beresford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beresford$324,033
- South Dakota$317,874
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Beresford listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Beresford27.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Beresford21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Beresford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beresford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.